Jim MacLaren, who at one time was the world’s fastest amputee triathlete, passed away Monday evening August 30th. His life was short but amazingly impactful. After getting hit by a New York City bus while on his motorcycle back in 1985 and having his lower leg amputated below the knee , the former Yale football player reinvented himself and became the Babe Ruth of amputee athletes, running a 3:16 marathon and going 10:42 at the Ironman in Kona, Hawaii.
September 3, 2010 | Posted in
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More than 330 athletes to represented U.S. in Budapest.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – More than 330 of the United States’ top age group triathletes will represent Team USA on Sept. 11-12 at the 2010 ITU Age Group Olympic-Distance and Sprint World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
This pair of races is just two of the many events that [...]
September 2, 2010 | Posted in
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USA Triathlon National Team member Sarah Haskins (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Mark Fretta (Portland, Ore.) of USAT’s Project 2012 program were victorious Sunday at the Chicago Triathlon.
Project 2012’s Jillian Petersen (St. Louis, Mo.) and Kevin Collington (Orlando, Fla.) each finished second to give USAT’s National Team Program four athletes on the podium.
Haskins covered the Olympic-distance [...]
August 30, 2010 | Posted in
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Great Britain’s Paul Ambrose celebrated his first Ironman win, while Australia’s Rebekah Keat captured her second, at the fourth-annual Ford Ironman Louisville Triathlon. Ambrose, who has seen podium finishes at Ironman 70.3 Cancun and Ironman 70.3 California, took the title more than 11 minutes ahead of the second male, Martin Jensen (DNK). His winning time was 8:29:59. Keat, the 2007 Ironman Australia winner, crossed the finish line with more than an 11-minute lead over second-place finisher, Kim Loeffler (USA). Keat’s official time was 9:33:15.
August 30, 2010 | Posted in
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More than 250 Americans – ranging from elites to age-groupers to paraduathletes – are scheduled to represent the United States at the 2010 ITU Duathlon World Championships on Sept. 3-5 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The U.S. contingent will face the world’s best elite and age group competitors at Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park to compete for six world championship [...]
August 27, 2010 | Posted in
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USA Triathlon’s signature events -the 2010 Age Group, Elite and Sprint National Championships – will once againbe held in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Sept. 25-26. This year’s two-day event marksthe fourth consecutive year that a major triathlon championship has been heldin the city.
Successful USAT Collegiate National Championships in 2007 and 2008, the2008 U.S. Olympic Trials and [...]
August 26, 2010 | Posted in
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USA Triathlon has finalized its selection procedures for the 2012 U.S. Olympic TriathlonTeam, which will compete in the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London from July27-Aug. 12, 2012, pending final approval by the USOC Chief Executive Officer.Additionally, USAT has set its selection procedures for the 2011 Pan AmericanGames set for October 2011 in Guadalajara, [...]
August 26, 2010 | Posted in
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Beginning at 7 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 21, is the Timberman Sprint race, which will take athletes on a .3-mile swim, a 15-mile bike and a 3-mile run. Among the more than 1,300 participants is Team Hoyt, a father-and-son duo that has completed 1,000-plus endurance events including the Ironman World Championship. For more than 25 years, Dick has pushed and pulled his son Rick, who was born with cerebral palsy and as a result is a spastic quadriplegic, over the finish lines of marathons, duathlons and triathlons. Together, they have overcome adversity and inspired people around the globe. The team was inducted to the Ironman Hall of Fame in 2008.
August 19, 2010 | Posted in
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PROSPECT PARK, PA – A benefit “Beef ‘N Beer” style event has been announced to help the family of Derek Valentino, the first time triathlete who drowned in the Schuylkill River during the Philadelphia Triathlon on June 26, 2010. The event will be held on Saturday October 16, 2010 at The Deck at Harbor Pointe in Essington, PA from 2pm – 6pm. It will feature a buffet, two hour open bar, silent auction, raffles, DJ, and 50/50. The silent auction will include items appealing to triathletes, music and sports enthusiasts and everyone in between. Triathletes will be enticed by items from Fuji Bikes, Zoot Sports, Scott Running Shoes, and signed books by author Joe Friel to name just a few.
August 5, 2010 | Posted in
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July 10th 2010 marked the 20th anniversary of the Lake Lenape sprint distance triathlon. This little jewel of a triathlon is nestled away in the quiet and scenic neighborhood of Mays Landing New Jersey and truly has become a community staple.
